Posted on 06/26/2009 11:29:28 AM PDT by TaraP
The Ug99 fungus, called stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world's wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before it reaches the U.S.
The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes.
Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with motion detectors and surveillance cameras, government scientists at the Cereal Disease Laboratory in St. Paul, Minn., suspended the fungal spores in a light mineral oil and sprayed them onto thousands of healthy wheat plants. After two weeks, the stalks were covered with deadly reddish blisters characteristic of the scourge known as Ug99.
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Kenya sends us another present we don’t need.
Afreaka and all it’s spores and spawn are soooooo freakin’ annoooooyin’!
Maybe Revelation `16
Images from Israel’s Exodus are prominent in the bowl judgments. In the days of Moses, God sent plagues upon Egypt that included plagues of boils (Exodus 9:8-12), waters turning to blood (Exodus 7:14-25), and darkness (Exodus 10:21-29).
d. Are the plagues described in this chapter symbolic? Perhaps we can’t envision all that these words mean. However, God’s judgment of this world will not be a symbolic judgment. We can remember that the reality behind a symbol is always more real - and in this case therefore more terrifying - than the symbol itself.
e. On the earth: Those who believe that the Book of Revelation is all fulfilled in history have a hard time with this. In Poole’s commentary, his suggestions on what earth might mean show how difficult it is to make sense of Revelation this way.
· He says earth might mean some parts of the earth
· He says earth might mean the common people
· He says earth might mean The Roman Empire
· He says earth might mean The Roman Catholic clergy
i. The point is clear. If earth doesn’t mean earth, then no one can tell what it means, and God may as well not have written it.
2. (2) The first bowl: foul and loathsome sores.
So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image.
a. A foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast: Those who worshipped the beast and received his mark are now “marked” by God with loathsome sores.
Kenya huh?
I’m partial to the africanized killer bees.
And this is why ConAgra is developing a flour that contains no wheat. They’ve got us covered.
but “Frankenfood” is evil.just ask an organic hippie.
If birds don’t bring it here, GLOBALIZATION will.
It seems that you’re quoting someone who (himself) is commenting on a part of *someone else’s writing*, and trying to say something about it...
And this is only a *part* of it, too...
In light of that... it’s hard to make sense of what is going on here without the complete link to it...
not worried. on low carb diet anyway.
There is a strong movement afoot to take down the food industry, much like they are doing with tobacco. Food scientists are not pleased.
There are many flours that don’t contain wheat.
This could be an interesting movie. Why does our food seem to make us sick?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqQVll-MP3I
That’s the film that jump-started the dialogue. Add in to illness-producing the obesity factor and it’s pretty damning that food processors are not, at the very least, helping. But we’ve known that for years so the real issues is: will gov’t have to intervene to save us from ourselves (and lower health costs, you know).
I’m no expert on this but I would imagine that this rust can be defeated with preventative treatment, most rusts can, the catch is that you have to spray it before it gets it.
“The point is clear. If earth doesn’t mean earth, then no one can tell what it means, and God may as well not have written it.”
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I am fairly certain that the entire bible was written by men. Some believe that they were inspired by God and some do not but I don’t think God himself wielded a pen for any of it.
Because hypochondriacs are stupid people that believe the stupidity offered in that stupid trailer you linked?
Your video cries about ethylene gas being used to ripen tomatoes. That sounds scary until you realize that tomatoes give off ethylene gas naturally as they ripen.
There's a veil between us and where our food comes from... I was laughing when the narrator dramatically announced this. How utterly stupid.
Multinational corporations are involved in feeding the world he said. Ummm ok. What is it about feeding billions of people he doesn't understand?
He goes on to say that Animals and workers are being abused by these corporations. Do you belong to PETA and a union?
He finishes by claiming that multinational corporations control the food supply. What an idiot. The food industry is still highly fragmented and is ultra competitive.
Stupid people make a stupid film about a subject they don't know jack squat about and then someone posts a link to it on this conservative forum. Nice.
Do you support government intervention telling you what you can eat and in what quantities? Or is personal responsibility something conservatives still advocate?
Geez, you'd think it be a lot safer for us to send the research lab to Kenya. Even if we had to send an Army division to protect the researchers, it'd be cheaper than losing the wheat crop should their daily decontamination routines fail.
This is a problem that people with money can prepare for, wheat is easy to have shipped to your house and under good storage conditions easily lasts for decades and up to centuries.
Between baking, cereals, sprouting, wheat grass juice, beer making, shelf life, and storing in nice neat five gallon buckets wheat is neat and can be passed down to the children and their children.
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